Title & Author:

Ravenna in the imagination of Renaissance art / Alexander Nagel, Giancarla Periti.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]
©2020

Description:

204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Has fold out covers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Ravenna made visible / Alexander Nagel, Giancarla Periti -- Byzantine sources in Ravenna influence Venetian renaissance sculpture / Sarah Blake McHam -- Reframing the past : viewing mosaics in renaissance Ravenna / Nicholas Herman -- Creating the legitimate prince at the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini : Ravenna and the continuity of imperial tradition / Linda A. Koch -- Ravenna, Vasari, and the problem of the late antique heritage / Giancarla Periti -- Ravenna's unlikely monument : the Tomb of Dante at the Church of San Francesco / Debra Pincus -- San Vitale in Ravenna : the renaissance interpretation of a church between east and west / Silvia Foschi -- Art or history? The mosaics of San Vitale in Ravenna between the middle ages and the avantgardes / Claudio Franzoni.
Includes quotations in Italian or Latin.

Summary:

"It is clear that Renaissance artists and their patrons were interested in Ravenna's buildings and their decorations, both before Vasari's negative pronouncements and after them. Contemporary European travelers and diarists have left descriptions of the city's heritage, by then in ruinous condition. What happens if we reinsert this corpus of Ravenna's treasures and their multiple imbrications into our histories of Renaissance art? How can our narratives change if we trace and study an almost forgotten, albeit rich and articulated series of intersections between Ravenna's splendors and ambitious works of art and architecture from early modern Italy? These instances of creative imitations and recreations can best be recovered if we focus on the Renaissance production and humanists' accounts of the city's treasures, that is, works in various media and size, to map out an extended dimension of early modern visual culture."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

ISBN:

9782503583990 (paperback)
2503583997 (paperback)

Subject:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Tomb.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Basilica di S. Vitale (Ravenna, Italy)
Mosaics, Byzantine Italy Ravenna Historiography.
Art, Renaissance Roman influences.
Art, Byzantine Italy Ravenna.
Church decoration and ornament Italy Ravenna.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Ravenna.
Mosaïque byzantine Italie Ravenne Historiographie.
Art byzantin Italie Ravenne.
Églises Décoration et ornement Italie Ravenne.
Art, Byzantine.
Christian art and symbolism.
Church decoration and ornament.
Tombs.
Art, Renaissance Byzantine influences.
Art, Renaissance Italy Ravenna.
Italy Ravenna.

Added entries:

Nagel, Alexander, editor, writer of introduction.
Periti, Giancarla, 1966- editor, writer of introduction, contributor.
McHam, Sarah Blake, contributor.
Herman, Nicholas, contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308883
Call No.: BIB 254202
Status: Available